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Bhowmick’s my lucky coach: Nandy

Churchill Brothers goalkeeper Sandip Nandy, who stood out with his man of the match show in the team’s 2-0 win over Mohun Bagan in their I-League match on Sunday, credited technical director Subhas Bhowmick for reviving his football career.

Proud of being Un-Bollywoodian

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Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra takes pride in calling himself an “un-Bollywood person”. It is one of the first things he says, as he settles down on his sofa, at his Bandra office, for what he calls his first “candlelight interview”.

TIMBAKTU’S STORY OF SUCCESS

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On a September day in 1989, Babu Ganguly sat down on a barren piece of land in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. A few minutes later, he sensed magic in the land that made him want to spend the rest of his life there. That turned into a big story — and the story has turned into an award-winning film, Miracle Water Village too! For Babu Ganguly, it was not easy, though.

What are Beatles’ fans excited about?

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A reunion of sorts! Lovers of the evergreen Liverpool band were astonished as the two existing members, Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, met up for an impromptu dinner in L.A last Saturday.

Swedish invasion

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They’ve performed with the leading DJs in the world of dance music — be it Tiesto, Axwell or Steve Angello — but Rebecca Scheja and Fiona Fitzpatrick are stars in their own right.

Don Bosco School notch up third win

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Panjim-based Don Bosco High School registered their third win in a row, thrashing Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj, 3–0 in a league match of the inter-city leg of the 3rd Mahindra Youth Football Challenge at the Bangalore Football Stadium on Saturday.

Gandas clinches junior title

Manu Gandas (right) and Kartik Sharma, winner of the Category A and B at the Usha-IGU Delhi junior golf championship, pose with

Teenage golfer Manu Gandas came up with a brilliant finish with three birdies in the last four holes on the final day to win the Usha-IGU Delhi junior title at the Qutub Golf Course in the capital on Friday.

Indian squad for AFC U-14 C’ship named

A 21-member Indian team will take part in the AFC Under-14 championship in Mashhad, Iran.
Besides hosts Iran, India have been clubbed along with Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan in Group D.

Old shows bloom in new seasons

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Perhaps taking a page out of big brother’s book, TV too seems bitten by the sequel bug. While the system of having different seasons of the same show has long been put forward as one of the ways to keep television content fresh, the rigours of daily filming and the TRP quest that most shows find themselves struggling with has meant that not too many have chosen to pause, go back to the storyboard and then come back, in a newer, improved avatar. But that is now changing.

The bird is now singing music

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Say hello to Twitter #music, a new standalone music service that is another feather in the company’s hat! The social media company unveiled the new service, explaining it in its official blog post as a service that “uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists.”

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.